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Adapting to Summer

People like me who aren't 'water people' should envy those who are.  I am not planning on changing, but it is satisfying to appreciate their point of view more and more, over the years.



The older a person gets, the less excuse they have for being a blockhead.  For instance, every summer I fight summer instead of just surrendering to it and then adapting to it.  I had a friend once in a bicycle club who got tired of hearing people gripe about the heat.  He told them, "It's summer.  It's supposed to be hot."  He was right, and I knew it at the time.

The biggest source of worry in summer is my little dog getting hot in the van, in a parking lot.  I already owned this 'Breeze' fan from Fantastic but didn't use it much.  So I moved it into the van and found a way to mount it.  Then it plugs into the cigarette light.  It helps.


Of course if you didn't already own the Breeze fan, you could just buy one of those USB-rechargeable mini-fans (with their own lithium batteries), with an alligator clip mount, and then find some place to clamp it, near the window.

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